The alliance — which includes Larimer Associates, Sage Hospitality, REGen LLC and Urban Neighborhoods — announced Wednesday that McWhinney will become the investment's managing member.

McWhinney is responsible for large-scale, multiuse developments in Colorado such as Centerra in Loveland and North Park in Broomfield.

The alliance, also called Team USA, and McWhinney will be responsible for the delivery of the overall Union Station project, including a 112-room hotel and more than 22,000 square feet of ground-floor space that will be divided into about 10 independent retail and restaurant outlets, complemented by 40,000 square feet of outdoor plaza space.

The redeveloped Union Station also will house Amtrak rail service, and it will be the centerpiece of RTD's FasTracks transit expansion program.

"McWhinney has tremendous experience developing commercial and mixed-use space," said Walter L. Isenberg, president and CEO of Sage Hospitality. "We are pleased to have the team at McWhinney join us as we transform Denver's Union Station into a bustling mixed-use, transit-oriented hub that will be the heart of Denver's vibrant downtown."

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Chad McWhinney, CEO and co-founder of McWhinney, said, "The opportunity to work with such strong partners creating what will be downtown Denver's signature development was too great an opportunity to pass up."

The Denver Union Station team also announced that it has completed financing with Colorado-based FirstBank, which has successfully completed large-scale developments of this kind in the Lower Downtown area.

The station was closed to the public Dec. 1, and construction began two days later.

Denver's Larimer Associates is handling the retail leasing of the redevelopment, and Sage Hospitality will operate the hotel.

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